Stop the presses! Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have made a new measurement of Planck’s constant to a highly accurate degree. It’s the latest step toward improving the official definition of the kilogram, the unit of mass that underpins our entire international system of weights and measures. Read more…
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Scientists Are Redefining the Kilogram
Oh no. This is it. It’s the end. We had a good run everyone, but Google Calendar is down. Read more…
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Google Calendar Is Down, Life As We Know It Ceases to Exist [Update: It’s Back]
Nearly thirty years after an international treaty banned the use of chlorofluorocarbons, the Antarctic ozone hole is finally starting to heal. By mid to late century, it should be fully recovered. Read more…
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The Ozone Hole Is Finally Healing
We already know the Raspberry Pi makes a great photo frame , but DIYer Paul Stamatiou took it another step and integrated in Google Photos. Read more…
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Build an Automatically Updating Digital Photo Frame with a Raspberry Pi and Google Photos
The rumors have swirled for a while now. Various people who have worked on the show have dropped hints. But now David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, Game of Thrones ’ showrunners, have officially, irrevocably confirmed that we only have 15 episodes of the show left… at most. Probably less. Read more…
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Game of Thrones Showrunners Confirm There Are Only 15 Episodes Left, Max
Image: Capasso Lab/Harvard SEAS These beetles may look like two different species, but they’re the same individual. The difference lies in how they were photographed, using a new lens that allows scientists to “see” one of the most fundamental properties of biology: chirality. Read more…
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These Images Were Taken With an Entirely New Kind of Photography
1998 was such a good year for PC gaming. Half-Life , Grim Fandango , Baldur’s Gate, Star Craft , Rogue Squadron , and many, many more. Dang. Those looking to relive the glory days could easily run most of these games through a virtual machine, but YouTuber nine took it a step (or several) further and built a period-accurate 1998 gaming rig. Read more…
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Building a Windows 98 Gaming PC in 2016 Is a Pain in the Ass
This is a 53, 000 megapixel photo of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. It’s also a promotional photo for the Bentley Mulsanne. Read more…
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This Is A 53,000 Megapixel Photo Of A Bentley Mulsanne
Amazon has just announced some nice improvements to the cheapest Kindle . The price is still crazy good at $80, and the battery still lasts for weeks. (It also still has a middling 167 ppi display.) But it’s also thinner, lighter, and now comes in black and white. Read more…
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The Cheapest Kindle Just Got Better
Adobe’s pushing out a big update to its suite of creative cloud apps, most notably to Photoshop, which gets a slew of new features, including content-aware crop, match font, and more. Read more…
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Adobe Rolls Out Big Update for Photoshop CC, Smaller Updates for the Rest of Its Apps